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From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
Subject: Re: RFC: Kernel thread system nomenclature.
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On 2001-Jul-06 18:14:03 -0700, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> wrote:
>#3 ??? (thread carrier (spindle? :-))  or thread-processor

A spindle is a physical disk drive (or at least independent head
assembly) - I/O rates are associated with spindles rather than
[virtual/RAID] disks.

If we're going to use the sewing analogy, maybe "bobbin" :-).

Peter

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